News / Airlines compensate for weak yields by increasing surcharges, claim forwarders

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Forwarders have complained that recent increases in airfreight surcharges are impacting their bottom line and are merely an attempt by carriers to profit in a “very challenging” market where yields refuse to improve.

One SME airfreight forwarder, speaking on the sidelines of WCA conference week, pointed to Lufthansa’s recent decision to raise security surcharges and claimed security costs had not gone up.

The German carrier appears to have upped its security surcharge on many tradelanes, including in Scandinavia, to €0.25 per kilo, ...